Special Reports

"Evidence indicates that psychotherapy may yield greater durability of treatment gains than pharmacotherapy."

In this Special Report, let's re-evalute depression.

How can hospital staff provide the most effective care to patients with comorbid medical illness and serious mental illness?

Anorexia nervosa may be underdiagnosed in patients with schizophrenia due to difficulty in distinguishing the two comorbid conditions.

Most patients have more than 1 condition that requires attention. Here's what you need to know.

The development of the National Pediatric Boarding Consensus Panel guidelines attempts to provide hospitals suggestions for a safe, timely, and equitable standard of care for patients who are boarding.

Safety planning by peers is feasible and acceptable to patients, might result in decreased ED visits, and may represent a way of implementing safety plans in rural EDs.

"As society continues to grapple with the consequences of violent behaviors, increasing efforts to understand and mitigate the risks of such behaviors using evidence-based methods and tools will be essential."

Welcome to the Emergency Psychiatry Special Report.

The body keeps the score...

"Be bold, choose joy, and live authentically."

The ambiguity of psychiatry naturally lends itself to a story, and creativity is all about telling a story.

For one patient, the road to wellness was also a creative journey.

This Special Report invites readers to journey with individuals who use their artistic side to reflect on their experiences as healers and the healed.

"Systemic racism is insidious and ingrained in our daily experience. Women of color are doubly minoritized."

“She would never hurt her baby...”

"There is an urgency for competent, thoughtful mental health care for women—not only because the differences have been ignored in the past, but because women’s mental health so often affects health and mental health outcomes for their children."

How can we turn the tide of the fentanyl epidemic?

84% of 500 TikToks offered inaccurate or potentially damaging medical advice. How can you address TikTok as a mental health professional?

The recent social disruption and stress placed on families has led to heightened mental health concerns in children and adolescents. Here's how you can address them.

Youth today have a relatively nuanced and mixed experience with social media. How can you best navigate this relationship as a mental health clinician?

In this CME, check out best practices for screening and treating adolescents and young adults with substance use issues.

Do you sometimes feel you do not have the experience, tools, and financial support needed to establish or participate in collaborative care and integrative team-based care delivery?

Mental health needs have skyrocketed in the US, but access to treatment remains inadequate. Here's how we can help youth.

"The death rate among youth aged 10 to 24 years increased 52.2% from 6.9 per 100,000 in 2001 to 10.5 per 100,000 in 2020."

In this 2-part Special Report, we highlight the urgency of addressing child and adolescent mental health.

"I have autism. All my friends say so. I do have autism. You just don't get it."